kind
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)kinds
Adjective (3)kinder, kindest
- having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior“kind to sick patients”“a kind master”“kind words showing understanding and sympathy”“thanked her for her kind letter”Opposite unkindSimilar gentle, charitable, kindhearted, benignant, benignRelates to kindnessSee also accommodating, beneficent, benign, considerate, good-natured, soft +2 more
- agreeable, conducive to comfort“a dry climate kind to asthmatics”“the genial sunshine”“hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet”Synonyms: genialOpposite inhospitableSimilar hospitable
- tolerant and forgiving under provocation“our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke”Synonyms: tolerantOpposite unforgivingSimilar forgiving
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Translations
Adjective affectionate, nice
- Spanish
- amable
- French
- gentil
- German
- nett
- Italian
- gentile
- Portuguese
- amável
- Russian
- до́брый dóbryj
- Arabic
- حَنُون ḥanūn
- Chinese
- 亲切 qīnqiè
- Japanese
- 親切 shinsetsu
- Dutch
- aardig
24 more languages
- Polish
- miły
- Swedish
- snäll
- Greek
- αγαθός agathós
- Korean
- 친절하다 chinjeolhada
- Vietnamese
- tốt bụng
- Hungarian
- kedves
- Portuguese (PT)
- amável
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 親切 qīnqiè
- Catalan
- maco
- Czech
- laskavý
- Danish
- rar
- Esperanto
- amema
- Finnish
- ystävällinen
- Georgian
- კეთილი ketili
- Icelandic
- góður
- Latvian
- laipns
- Lithuanian
- malonus
- Norwegian
- snill
- Romanian
- bun
- Scottish Gaelic
- coibhneil
- Serbo-Croatian
- ljubazan
- Slovak
- láskavý
- Slovenian
- prijazen
- Welsh
- caredig
Noun type, race, category
- Spanish
- género
- French
- genre
- German
- Art
- Italian
- tipo
- Portuguese
- tipo
- Turkish
- tür
- Russian
- вид vid
- Arabic
- نوع nawʕ
- Chinese
- 类 lèi
- Japanese
- 種類 shurui
27 more languages
- Dutch
- soort
- Polish
- rodzaj
- Swedish
- sort
- Korean
- 종류 jongnyu
- Indonesian
- jenis
- Vietnamese
- loại
- Hungarian
- fajta
- Portuguese (PT)
- género
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 類 lèi
- Albanian
- lloj
- Catalan
- tipus
- Danish
- slags
- Esperanto
- speco
- Estonian
- liik
- Finnish
- laji
- Georgian
- სახეობა saxeoba
- Hebrew
- מִין min
- Icelandic
- tegund
- Latvian
- šķirne
- Lithuanian
- rūšis
- Norwegian
- slag
- Romanian
- fel
- Scottish Gaelic
- seòrsa
- Serbo-Croatian
- vrsta
- Slovenian
- vrsta
- Welsh
- math
- Yiddish
- מין min
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. cynde, gecynde, natural, innate, prop. an old p. p. from the root of E. kin. See Kin kindred.
1. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.— Philemon Holland
2. Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault.— Oliver Goldsmith
3. Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
He is kind unto the unthankful and to evil.— Luke vi 35.
O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.— Edmund Waller
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.— David Garrick
4. Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. “Manners so kind, yet stately.” Alfred Tennyson
5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
Synonyms: Benevolent; benign; beneficent; bounteous; gracious; propitious; generous; forbearing; indulgent; tender; humane; compassionate; good; lenient; clement; mild; gentle; bland; obliging; friendly; amicable. See Obliging.
Origin: OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See Kind, adjective
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. obsolete
He knew by kind and by no other lore.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.— John Dryden
2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. “Come of so low a kind.” Geoffrey Chaucer
Every kind of beasts, and of birds.— James iii.7.
She follows the law of her kind.— William Wordsworth
Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds !— Edmund Spenser
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.— I Cor. xv. 39.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; — said loosely or slightingly. In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.— John Arbuthnot
Synonyms: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.
Origin: See Kin.
To beget. obsolete Edmund Spenser
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54